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In the news

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The Pierce lab was recently in Nova Scotia doing fieldwork as part of Stephanie's 'in the footsteps of Romer' expedition grant. Our hard work made the front page of the Chronicle Herald and an online version is avaliable. Further, Stephanie was in the...

Katrina fellowship news

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Massive congratulations to Katrina Jones for being awarded an American Association of Anatomists Postdoctoral Fellowship! Katrina will use her fellowship to continue research in the lab on our synapsid vertebral evolution project. Fantastic!

Publication update

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Pierce Lab has been a bit slow getting the news out about new publications, so here is a quick run down of the last few months: 1) Back in October, PhD student Blake Dickson had his first-ever manuscript published! The study examined inner ear convergence...

Tetrapods in Nature!

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Big news! Blake's application of functional adaptive landscapes to early tetrapod humeri was published today in NATURE! The research shows that the early tetrapod 'L-shaped' humerus provided some functional benefit for moving on land - but that these...

Romer's Gap fieldwork

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Stephanie has just returned from searching for early tetrapod fossils in West Virgina. More information here.

New NSF Bio Fellowship

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Congratulations to Robert Kambic on starting his NSF Bio Fellowship! Bird necks here we come!

Croc brains in 3D

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New open access paper from the Pierce Lab on thalattosuchian crocodylomorph endocranial anatomy. Check it out!

MSc disseration submitted!

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Congratulations to Jillian Oliver for submitting her MSc dissertation: "Bending mechanics and morphology of the vertebral column in Dasypus novemcinctus, the nine-banded armadillo".

Filling in the blanks of evolution

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In this recent Harvard Gazette article, researchers Katrina Jones and Stephanie Pierce study examines when and how functional diversity happened in mammal spines.